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Catalonia-raised, US-educated political scientist in KC. Loyal to the Chiefs Kingdom, the Girona FC empire, and the British sovereignty of Gibraltar
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Happy Saint Patrick's Day! youtu.be/ziECEE0k0JQ?...

Not that Trump will get impeached or anything, but disobeying a court order is an impeachable offense

All 550 of VOA’s contract status reporters, editors, videographers, engineers and techs just notified they’re terminated effective end of this month. We don’t distinguish internally between them and regular staff — all are highly skilled and absolutely critical to the operation.

That's very unfortunate. In my teenage years, I regularly used my small short-wave radio receiver to tune into VOA from shithole Spain, wondering if I would ever move to the US... Short-wave public radio is an asset, not a liability www.reuters.com/business/med...

AFSA - The American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) strongly opposes the administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and its removal of all Foreign Service members from their positions under the pretext of administrative leave. Unilaterally stripping a […]

Happy π Day

Beautiful lunar eclipse right now from here in KC

The current peace negotiations between the US, Russia, and Ukraine make it clear once again that the European Union is an irrelevant institution

The story makes a great pickup line at bars though www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/t...

Measles outbreaks only happen in third-world countries where people have limited access to vaccines www.nbcchicago.com/news/nationa...

My advice is hold on to your stocks; don’t panic and sell at a loss

Repeat after me: The stock market is not the economy

Sunday’s mascletà at the Valencia city government square, a daily event that is part of the annual Falles festival (late Feb to Mar 19). I was right there 12 years ago. Turn up your speakers youtu.be/64DJu8ophtE?...

The quickest way to lose me as a follower is to repost your own previous posts

ABC News has now fully taken down the old 538 website, including all interactive projects since 2014. Aside from erasing history this prevents access to publicly released data, including raw polls, averages, model estimates & story dta. Totally unacceptable for a company (allegedly) doing journalism

Woman with a baseball cap that reads “Sorry about my husband”. Happy March 8

The spokeswoman for the military-industrial complex says…

Letting teens drink alcohol at home may lead to heavier alcohol use as young adults, study finds.

Sticker “Please be patient - student driver” ON A TESLA in front of me

Wearing a visor indoors is one of the most American things to do

The spokeswoman for the military-industrial complex says…

Quite surprisingly to me, turns out 30% of Canadians are fine with their country being annexed by the US www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Repeat after me: The stock market is not the economy

Canadians are wondering what this trade war is aboot

Trudeau says, in French, that Canada is the best country in the world. That’s not gonna fly well 😆

Canadian news radio stations are really entertaining this morning

Conan O’Brien has not aged in 25 years

Let’s start calling it “affirmative action”. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today’s summit in London “to stop the fighting in Ukraine” is a desperate attempt by European countries to claim credit for the peace agreement being forged by the White House. Quite ironic, keeping in mind the EU is greatly responsible for the political turmoil and instability in Ukraine since 2014

The president of Europe's most corrupt country shows up at the Oval Office to lecture the US in front of the cameras, and it doesn't go well for him. That's yesterday's headline

It was about time for Zelensky to get bitchslapped

Weekend at Bernie’s www.bbc.com/news/article...

The wannabe dictator doing more dictator things www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

EU officials are in denial over the prospects of a peace deal in Ukraine. At the Munich Security Conference today, they’re still talking about sending even more weapons to Ukraine

Apparently, he tastes like shit www.nbcchicago.com/news/nationa...

Finally some breath of fresh air and common sense regarding Ukraine www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’ll keep on calling it “The Gulf”

Conflict of interest is actually a requirement to be in the Trump administration www.nbcchicago.com/news/nationa...

If you favor a particular team to win the Super Bowl based solely on the perceived ideological leanings of its owner, you’re not any better than Trump